Ouroboros Spine [m] ⊡ ukaksitaak ⊡

He didn't know the woman until someone else named her, and then only cold confusion washed through his chest. His dislike for her was immediate, but a secondary strand asked if there was something more he ought to do.

But this was Vairë and Kukutux's trial, and he had but one job to do. When Cen slipped his grasp, he lunged after him with a vicious sound. Vairë put herself in his path, whipping Valiant into an immediate fury. If teeth so much as touched his wife —

Seeing red, uncaring of any injuries he sustained in the process, Valiant wrestled Cen onto his back and lunged for his throat. As much as he wanted to tear it free, for the moment, he only sought to hold on tight. Vairë could do as she wished with him. And if he struggled too much during this, it would not be Valiant's fault his throat could not withstand the force required to hold him still.

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